Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baker (3) is Congress, serving up half a loaf of surtax. Above and to the right stands a G.I. (4) in the process of dropping his equipment into the arms of South Viet Nam's President Thieu (5). Below, Rumania's President Ceausescu (6) listens apprehensively while Soviet Party Boss Brezhnev (7) tells him to cool it. The street sign and elephant symbolize the Republican Party, with Senator Strom Thurmond (8) and a liberal (9) representing its two wings. Finally, a poor man (10) gets his first look at the new welfare package to see what it contains...
...biological brother. By mixing fact with Crichton's only too probable fantasy, his novel locates itself in a never-never world of secret government installations. It is the revelation of purported government secrets that make the book so compelling. For example, if a contaminated satellite falls within the Soviet or Eastern Bloc territory the United States had decided not to inform the Russians of what had happened. "The basis of this decision was the prediction that a Russian plague would kill between two and five million people, while combined Soviet-American losses from a thermonuclear exchange involving both first...
...made preparations at the same time to cross the frontier by swimming under water. I have to mention all this so as to make it clear just how serious a matter it was and that no one else was, or could be, involved in my plans. I beg the Soviet Government not to persecute my mother, my son, my wife or my personal secretary. It is bad enough for them already, and it will be worse still, because my earnings were their only means of support. I beg you not to confiscate their possessions and not to deprive them...
...Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
...most frightful failures and the periods of complete prostration that descend on official Soviet literature are due, I am firmly convinced, to the imposition on it by dictatorial means of "Socialist Realism," and in particular of the doctrine of the "Party content" of literature...